Virtual Sensory Session: Effect of Crop Load on Wine Quality in Merlot
Jonathan Wheeler and Joseph Geller
Trump Winery
In 2019, the team at Trump Winery conducted a study of the Effect of Merlot Crop Load on Grape and Wine Quality. With the assistance of Dr. Tim Jordan, they set up replicated blocks within the vineyard and took an impressive amount of data to try to understand if wine quality in this Merlot vineyard is affected by altering crop load from 4.5 to 3 tons/acre. On April 30, 2020 we met virtually to discuss this study and to collect sensory data from our remote participants.
